Sentences with phrase «animal hybrid embryos»

A coalition of Britain's leading medical charities had earlier urged MPs to approve stem cell research using human - animal hybrid embryos.

The creation of human - animal hybrid embryos, which is now legal in Britain, was also rejected by the vast majority of respondents.

Science won out over the «yuck factor» today as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted the first licences for research on human - animal hybrid embryos.

He is referring to the question of human - animal hybrid embryos; and he does not, it will be noted, utter anything so obvious as «it is profoundly wrong»:

Daily Telegraph May 7th 2007 Chief contributor: Lisa Gregoire OF EVANGELICAL INTEREST • Radio Four's Sundayprogramme on 20th May last hosted a discussion on the government's «U-turn» in favour of the creation of human - animal hybrid embryos for medical research.

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Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human - animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.

Scientists believe having the hybrid embryos help them to create better animal models.

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

Among the bill's most controversial sections is legal clarification allowing research on so - called hybrid embryos, where a human nucleus is inserted into an animal egg.

MPs have urged the government not to ban hybrid human - animal embryos, warning current proposals are too prohibitive and could compromise the UK's position in the scientific community.

Mr Cameron said that he did not favour overturning the controversial Human Embryology Act, which allows the creation of hybrid human and animal embryos.

The report, from a committee made up of 11 members of Parliament, also recommends legalizing research involving embryos of chimeras and hybrids, which includes cells created by fusing human and animal nuclei.

A long - shot attempt to block U.K. researchers from creating human - animal hybrid cells or embryos has ended quickly, with a judge dismissing a new lawsuit filed by the Christian Legal Centre and the Comment on Reproductive Ethics and ruling that the groups should pay # 20,000 in court costs.

The outcomes (no to a reduction in the 24 - week limit for «social abortions»; yes to animal - human hybrid embryos; yes to «true hybrids» created by fusion of an animal gamete and a human gamete; yes to saviour siblings; and no to a requirement to consider the need for a father when considering IVF) have been headline news.

A hybrid embryo would then be grown in an Asian elephant surrogate mother — or an artificial womb, Church says — to give birth to a new mammoth - elephant animal.